Some areas are so dense and rugged they are impossible to traverse on foot.

Some species of animal and plant life are so isolated in their Maui habitat they exist only in their own little valley and nowhere else in the world.

Where do the Maui Helicopter rides take you?

Hana and Haleakala Crater Maui Helicopter Tours...

There are many different Helicopter Rides on Maui that can be taken but the main two are the 45 minute Hana/Crater tour and the 60 minute full Circle Island.

The very least amount of time I would recommend to take would be the 45 minute Hana/Crater flight because shorter tours are just not long enough to enjoy what Maui has to offer.

The Hana Crater tour departs, as do all flights, from the heliport at the Kahului Airport.

It winds its way up to the top of the crater at 10,000 ft. Here you'll be looking down at the crater which descends 3000 ft and is 21 miles in circumference.

It is so large in fact that the analogy is often used that you can take the entire island of Manhattan and fit it within the boundaries of Haleakala Crater.

The landscape there is strikingly stark in its beauty and looks almost like the surface of the moon.

From there you'll move onward to some of the most remote valleys on the island with huge waterfalls and steep drop-offs and finally wind your way into the region of the Oheo Gulch and Hana.

From this vantage point you'll be looking down upon triple-canopy rainforests with enormous brilliantly colored African Tulip trees, waterfalls, pools, streams and rugged forest.

The Hana Coastline from the air is one of the most beautiful to be found anywhere on the planet, in fact this was the backdrop for much of the footage that was seen on the movie Jurassic Park.

Circle Island Maui Helicopter Tours include Haleakala Crater, the Hana area and the West Maui Mountains...

The second major flight of the island is the Circle Island flight which encompasses the exact same flight as the 45 min Crater/Hana tour but also includes the spectacular West Maui Mountains as well.

The West Maui Mountains are a completely different animal then is Haleakala.

While Haleakala is considered a dormant volcano that is just at the apex of its growth stage the West Maui's have been extinct for over a million years.

They are also the home of the second wettest spot on Earth.

The peak of Puu Kukui. The rainfall here is about 370 inches a year and the combination of so much rainfall falling upon such an old lava surface has carved huge valleys and cliffs in the interior.

From the top at Puu Kukui there are razor sharp ridges that sculpt their way to the coast.

On either side of the upper ridges the sheer walls that have been carved descend literally thousands of feet down to the valleys below.

And there are waterfalls everywhere.

One particular area we call the "wall of tears" has perhaps 15 to 35 waterfalls all happening at once depending on the rainfall from the previous hours.

Though this area is only about 4 miles as a crow flies to the towns of Lahaina, Kaanapali or Wailuku it is so remote that you will not see a road, a town or a person in sight.

In fact it is so primordial that the only thing you might expect to see would be a dinosaur.

If this is one of your first trips to Maui, this might be the best Maui helicopter ride for you to go on since you'll really have a good understanding of the lay of the land and you'll be able to go back and visit the places you were most attracted to.

West Maui and Molokai flights fly across the channel and visit the eastern half of Molokai as well as seeing West Maui...

The West Maui and Molokai helicopter tours are considered by some Maui helicopter pilots to be the very best of all, although there are both positives and negatives regarding these 60 minute flights.

Positives include the fact that the regions to be seen on Molokai are spectacular.

The northern coastline of Molokai is famous for having the largest waterfalls descending from cliffs into the sea of anyplace in the world.

It is also the home of the historic and extremely picturesque Kalaupapa Peninsula which is the home the famous Father Damien's Leper Colony.

The views to be seen on Molokai are considered by many as "payback" for what could be considered the one negative on this tour which is the fact that you need to travel about eight minutes or so across the channel from Maui to Molokai each way in order to get there and back.

Although the waters can be beautiful during the winter months and can offer spectacular views of the Humpback Whales, it is generally more interesting to spend your time flying over the beautiful scenery to be seen on the islands themselves rather than ocean.

West Maui Helicopter Rides include only West Maui.

The least expensive of the regularly scheduled Maui flights are the West Maui helicopter tours.

These tours range in the 20-30 minute zone and fly either into or around the West Maui Mountains.

The West Maui's are unbelievably beautiful and are filled with amazing waterfalls and sheer cliffs but because of the extreme rainfall found there (about 370"/year which makes it the second wettest spot on earth) the conditions can often be too wet and cloudy to see the best that it has to offer and many of these tours end up skirting the periphery of the mountains, which not being as exciting as going into the interior is still beautiful in its own right.

Maui Helicopters consist of a number of different types and models...

The A-Star is generally considered the "gold standard" for Maui helicopter tours. No matter where you sit you'll have 180-degree visibility. The rotator shaft does not come between the front and back seats and there are no visual impediments interrupting your view forward. The back seat is raised to give a better view above the seats in front and there is an abundance of windows.

The Robinson R44 is made by the Robinson Helicopter Company and has 4 seats, two front and two behind. All seats have fabulous visibility and this aircraft can be flown with doors on or doors off. The Robinson R44 has the distinction of being the first helicopter navigated by a woman to circumnavigate the globe flying a distance of 36,000 miles in 97 days.

The Whisper Star is actually the enhanced version of the A-Star and is generally considered the "Cadillac" of the Maui helicopters tour aircraft. These helicopters are wider allowing for all bucket seats for more comfort. They have about 20% more viewing capacity through the larger windows and they produce less noise as from heard from the outside.

With regard to personalize videos of your Maui helicopter tour: Many Maui helicopter companies equip their aircraft with special video recorders mounted in the nose and along the sides of the helicopter.

Some even have camera lenses mounted in the cockpit.

As the pilot flies along he directs the taping, selecting the camera offering the best view.

The result: at the end of your helicopter tour you're presented with a video tape of your actual flight to take home and enjoy over and over.

First Class Seating on your Maui Helicopter Ride: One of the very best innovations we have ever had on our Maui Helicopter Tours is provided on some of the Whisper Star aircraft flights offered by one of our premium island helicopter companies, Sunshine Helicopters.

When flying on the Whisper Star you can choose to pay extra and be guaranteed a front of the helicopter window seat.

The way it works under normal conditions on most all helicopter companies is that you are generally seated in the front or back seats based upon the weights of those flying with you and how they relate to the overall balance of the entire aircraft.

Because the Whisper Star has more weight capacity it offers the luxury of placing passengers of most weights in the front seats.

These seats are a bargain for anyone wishing to enjoy what is arguably the very best seating position on any helicopter but it may be even more of a bonus for people who carry larger weights and the additional pricing is often much less than they would pay in other helicopter tour aircraft who require often one-and-a-half to two times the cost of a passenger who is considered over normal weights.

Unlike many of our competitors we DO NOT require that you go to a time share or vacation club presentation in order to receive a discount.

Our discounted rates are available to everyone.

Pride of America Cruise Ship:Helicopter Tours departing from Maui do not pick up at the cruise ship but may be easily reached by taking a short taxi ride from the cruise ship at Kahului Harbor to the Kahului Heliport. View the 'restrictions' area after you click on each of the Maui Helicopter tour companies listed below for specifics regarding the cruise ship itinerary.

Look for this symbol in the tour descriptions below to indicate if it is Pride of America compatible.

This flight covers the most requested points of interest on Maui including Haleakala Crater and ancient cultural locations including the Pools of Oheo, the Hana rain forest, and spectacular waterfalls.
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Begin your day with an early morning take off over South Maui and up to the dormant volcano Haleakala. Land at a private cliff side location to take in the views over Maui and the ocean below. Your flight

Air Maui now offers the only doors off helicopter tour of Maui! Enjoy the thrill of this 45 minute ride, feel the exhilaration of the wind in your hair and see the sights of Maui and Molokai in an unforgettable

Take off from the heliport and over the ridges of West Maui. Continue across the Pailolo Chanel to the island of Molokai to explore the tallest sea cliffs, rain-forest and waterfalls. Coming back you will

Your tour begins with Sunshine Helicopters! Fly above the majestic waterfalls and dormant calderas of Haleakala for your 35 min scenic flight. You will land at the Hana Airport where you will meet with

Experience a Maui helicopter ride unlike any other during the Hana Rainforest Experience. Explore Maui's authentic and remote landscape featuring an exclusive 30-minute landing within the Hawaiian Rainforest.

The 40-50 minute East Maui Mountains tour will take you to see the main points of interest along the slopes of Mt. Haleakala. Possible sights include: Paia Bay and Hookipa Beach, "Jaws" (Maui's big wave

The 50-60 minute East Maui Mountains tour will take you to see the main points of interest along the slopes and summit of Mt. Haleakala. Possible sights include: Paia Bay and Hookipa Beach, "Jaws" (Maui's

The 50-60 minute West Maui / Molokai tour will take you through the rugged West Maui Mountains as well as the "Friendly" island of Molokai. Possible sights include: the Waihee Valley, waterfalls at the

Choose the Lanai Molokai Sea Cliffs for an incredible private helicopter tour giving you aerial views of Lanai and Molokai. Over one million years ago, Maui Nui was a single island forty percent larger

If you are looking for something special on your visit to Maui, then this is for you. This tour includes SUV limo transportation to and from your hotel or resort, your choice of a 30 or 45 minute helicopter

One of the most well known and respected helicopter tour companies in Hawaii is Sunshine Helicopters. Ross Scott is the company's founder and owner and his days in the helicopter business have their roots

Explore the lush West Maui Mountains and the remote villge of Kahakuloa. Weather permitting, soar above West Maui's tallest waterfall, Honokohau Falls, over 1,100 feet. Then pass by Nakalele Point "blow

Take a 60 minute tour to see all of Maui, including Haleakala Crater, Hana, and West Maui. For our guests needing assistance with a wheelchair or walker please inform vendor at time of reservation so that

See all the highlights of the West Maui Mountains, then (whale watch, in season) across the Pailolo Channel to discover Hawaii"s tallest waterfalls along Molokai"s remote and isolated North Shore. Capture

An approximate 35-minute "Hana/Haleakala" helicopter tour combined with Hana ground Tour. In the air you ascend the world's largest dormant volcano and view the spectacular coastline of our nation's largest

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Maverick Helicopters is clearly an 'upscale' helicopter company. Maverick is not a 'discount' helicopter service. Their purpose has always been to find a way to provide the best tours without cutting costs. Their fleet of aircraft is entirely based upon what is arguably the most luxurious helicopter touring aircraft available anywhere, the Eco Star or EC-130. In its past decades in operation, with approximately 200,000 passengers flown in recent calendar years, Maverick has maintained the highest level of flight security for any tour based helicopter company in the world. More Info / Buy Now

If you are staying on one Hawaiian Island but would like to visit the highlights of another island in the chain then the one-day inter-island flights and tours offered by Discover Hidden Hawaii Tours are just what you're looking for. These inclusive tours simplify your itinerary and make your touring experience 'care free'. More Info / Buy Now

Pacific Helicopter Tours offers doors off and private helicopters tours on the island of Maui. They've been in business since the early seventies however they only got into the tour business relatively recently. Their team of pilots and aircraft are top notch. When they're not flying tours it's not uncommon to find the Pacific Helicopters fleet out on special assignment doing things like Medevacs, aerial construction or filming Hollywood movies. More Info / Buy Now

Air Maui Helicopters is a long-standing member of the Maui helicopter community and over the years has flown tens of thousands of passenger to the far reaches of the island. Known widely for its congenial staff and 'laid back' company culture Air Maui has provided a faultless customer security profile in all its years of service on island. Air Maui exclusively uses the A-Star touring helicopters.

Sunshine Helicopters has been operating in Hawaii for over 25 years and has a large fleet of FX-Star and Whisper Star helicopters. You'll experience the ultimate in comfort and with more visibility on these state-of- the-art helicopters. The owners, Ross and Anna Scott, are respected helicopter tour operators and offer spectacular flights of Maui, Kauai, and the Big Island of Hawaii. More Info / Buy Now

Temptation Tours offers a variety of tours of Maui including tours to Hana, Haleakala, Upcountry and a special half helicopter/half land tour 'Sky Trek' to visit Hana from the sky above and the land below. Their personalized vans are the most comfortable in the industry and seat a maximum of 8 passengers who each have special 'captain's chairs' located next to giant cut out picture windows for amazing views. More Info / Buy Now

Mendes Ranch is one of the most popular horseback riding venues offered on the island of Maui. Located on the eastern slopes of the West Maui Mountains in the Kahakuloa region, this ranch sweeps down all the way to the water making for breathtaking views. This working cattle ranch has been in the Mendes' family for generations and you'll have a chance to see and learn a bit about the culture of the Hawaiian Paniolo Cowboys. More Info / Buy Now

Paradise Helicopters is one of the premier helicopter touring companies that services both the Big Island and Oahu. One of the biggest differences between this company and many others is the fact that they will offer you the opportunity to take a flight with the doors off. As nerve racking as that may sound, you are completely strapped in an just a secure as you would be in an enclosed helicopter. The big difference is that your view from this perspective will be absolutely amazing. More Info / Buy Now

Found of the slopes of Haleakala at about the 2500' level just a couple of miles above the 'cowboy' town of Makawao is found the Piiholo Ranch. This working cattle ranch is the home of the most beautiful meadowland horseback riding area on the island as well as the home of two of the most popular zipline courses to be found on Maui. The extreme beauty of the green rolling hills, the fresh mountain air and the scent of the mountain forests in themselves are enough of a reason to come for a visit. More Info / Buy Now

Video Transcript

This video segment is going to be about helicopter tours on the island of Maui, and in fact in Maui County.

Helicopters, without question, are some of the most popular ... always have been ... Activities that we have here. One of the most exciting; also one of the most expensive of the choices of activities you could do, but they are well, well worth it. Let's get a picture here of the islands a little bit. It's often said that somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% of these islands, even a small island like Maui, can really only be seen from the air. You're really not going to be able to see these great places that Maui has to offer without getting into a helicopter or a fixed-wing aircraft. But the most popular that we have of Air Tours in Maui County are going to be the helicopters, and those are, in this case, the very best way to see these various areas.

There are so many places that you can't visit or can't see if you don't get up in the air. Also, if you are new to visiting the islands, not only should you go up to see them, but you should really try to get up when you first here, like the first day you're here or something like that. It'll change your entire perspective of what's happening on the island. You don't really get it, quite often, until you get up in the air and then traverse Maui, fly around it. If you do that, if you do the hour tour for instance on Maui, you're going to come back when you land ... you're going to know what the island looks like. Then you'll be able to know where you want to go back and what you want to see. It just kind of puts everything in perspective. You don't quite get that unless you get up in the air to see it. These mountains go up 10,000 feet, 5,000 feet-plus here on West Maui, and they're just kind of hard to understand what really happens up there until you actually take a trip up to see it.

There are a number of tours that you can take, helicopter-wise, on Maui. Generally you can break them down into just a few to make it simple. The island of Maui itself will have the complete island tour. That's usually about 60 minutes. If you divide West Maui off here, you have what is called the crater and Hana tour. That's generally 45 minutes. Although it's not done very often, just this portion of the island is called the West Mauis, and that would be maybe a 30-minute tour. The other tour that is very popular is one that goes over to visit Molokai over here, and that's usually included with West Maui. You'd do West Maui and Molokai, the West Maui/Molokai tour.

The heliport on the island where you're going to be leaving from is at Kahului at the main airport. It's actually just the other side of the runway. You can see when your planes are departing and when you're getting ready to take off, you look across the runway and you can see the helicopters going up and down. That's where they leave from.

What are these tours? What do you actually see in them? Well, let's just take them one by one here. Let's do probably the most popular tour that we have on the island is the Hana crater trip. If this mountain was in relief, if you could see it, this is all Haleakal? here. Haleakal? is a shield volcano that comes up about 10,000 feet, and at the very top is a crater that goes down 3,000 feet and it's enormous. 21 miles in circumference, and we always use the analogy that you can take Manhattan Island, you could put it inside there, to give you an idea of how big that is.

What these tours do is they leave from the airport here, they wind their way through the up-country area, very, very beautiful ... Makawao, Kula ... and then you finally get up to the top. You're not allowed to actually go inside the crater in the helicopters, but that doesn't matter. You can go around the periphery of the crater, and you can see everything that you want to see inside. You've got these incredible views. It's like seeing kind of a moonscape, if you will, of beautiful colors. Each time of day is a little bit different. Then they fall off the edge here, kind of going down to the Kaupo area, you've got Kaupo Valley, you've got Kipahulu Valley next door, giant, giant ravines and cliffs, escarpments you see quite often. In Kaupo you'll look on the cliffs and you'll see the little goat families and so on just cruising along on these tiny little pathways. They never seem to fall.

Then you can get into Kipahulu Valley, one of the most rugged and jungly valleys that you'll find anywhere. People don't go in there. It's so rugged and so jungled, and so remote really from the rest of the island ... You've only got a island that's 48 miles long and we're talking about one valley that's remote, but it's so hard to get into that there's actually species of plant life that live in that valley that don't exist anywhere else in the world, not even on either side of the valley. You've got these beautiful terrain that you're looking at, very remote. You've got waterfalls all through this area. Down on the coast you've got this beautiful coastline which works its way into Hana.

You kind of overfly this area. This is usually the route that they take. Then follow the coastline this way, kind of halfway inland and halfway over the coast. This is one of the most rugged and beautiful, sought-after coastlines you'll find anywhere on the planet. It's just this cragged ... the coastline ... You've heard of the Hana Highway, and perhaps you've driven it. It's just kind of chiseled along that coastline with these beautiful cliffs that go down all the way. This is all lush, dense, triple-canopy rainforest through here. You've got just jungle dripping from everywhere you could imagine, plus so many pools and streams and waterfalls, big and little, all through this area. Once you're up here and you're at that vantage point, you're realizing why you've never seen ... It would be impossible to see these areas even just driving the Hana coastline, or most people drive the Hana Highway. You're not going to be able to see back in here. You can just kind of look in the distance and go, "Well, there's mountains up there," but from up above, you're seeing so many waterfalls, pools and streams, and jungle. It is absolutely gorgeous.

Then they come back. As they get closer to the airport, if you're lucky enough, you'll have a nice day when you can see the surfers out in Ho'okipa, really colorful with all the windsails and that sort of thing. And then they land. That's a 45-minute trip.

The complete island trip is the one that includes everything we just looked at here, but also includes West Maui. This is a totally different animal. It's not as high. It's a little over 5,000 feet, but from the top up here, there's a place called Puu Kukui. Like spokes on a wheel, you've got these really defined valleys and ridges that go in each direction down toward the coast. This is one of the wettest spots in the world. Quite often it's the second wettest spot after Mount Waialeale on Kauai. Sometimes it's the first, and has been over the course of years, but it's wet. We get maybe ... and it changes all the time ... but let's just say 360, 370 inches of rainfall a year, like a inch a day.

You've got these just incredibly green, green jungles. This area has been worn down by the rain, the clouds, the wind, by so many years. It's been extinct about a million years. It has formed these precipices, these little valleys, ridges that go straight down. On either side of the ridges, you're just falling off sheer. Then in the middle of the valleys, you've got this tremendous jungle areas, but the jungle even grows all the way up to the top of these ridges. There's one place we have in here called the Wall of Tears. Maybe you've got 15, maybe you've got 30 waterfalls, depending on how much rain has been falling, that just kind of weep out of this one wall. With the capability of the helicopters, you can actually get right in there and hover and see this, and then kind of turn around and turn around. It's amazing, and no other machine can get you into a situation where you're going to be able to see that. This is why you take the helicopter tours.

What exists back there, it's like no place you've ever seen. If anything, you expect to see dinosaurs or something. It's like the idea end of the earth. It's incredible, yet it's just a five or six-minute flight back to the water in one of these helicopters, but it is really amazing to be seen. This is what you're going to be seeing, in addition to the West Maui, and you get the full circle island on this.

The other one that we're talking about is the one that includes what we just talked about now with West Maui, but takes you over to Molokai. You've got this situation where you're going over the channel, so that may take six or seven minutes or something to cruise that. If you're doing it during Whale Season, you're going to see whales down below which is always exciting. But you're going to be going over to Molokai which is very similar to what West Maui looks like in terms of the ridges and the jungles and that sort of thing. But you've also got this amazing 2,000-foot cliffs on the north side here. They also have waterfalls. In fact, they have waterfalls that have the longest free-fall waterfalls in the world that end up in the ocean. That's a sight to behold.

If you continue this coastline far enough, you get to this one area called Kalaupapa. It's a peninsula here, and this is the site of Father Damien's Leper Colony. It is a sight to behold. That ridge that starts here, these cliffs, continue behind this peninsula, and they are what actually protect the peninsula and keep it private. This, of course, was a place that lepers, people who had Hansen's disease, in the mid to late-1800s came. It was a place where they could be put, and they wouldn't be passing on the disease to others, so it was a colony of all these people. But they were fortunate enough to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth, really incredible. You see this all from the helicopter, and then double back and around and come back and see West Maui. Those are usually an hour trip as well.

That's pretty much what you're going to be seeing in terms of the various tours. What kind of helicopters are you going to be in? Well, we have different companies and they fly different helicopters. If you were to pick the helicopter that is probably the most popularly used in Hawaii, that's going to be called the AStar helicopter. It is a helicopter that is designed ... it's a French design ... it's designed specifically for the purpose of sightseeing. No matter where you sit on this helicopter, you have 180-degree view.

The way it works is you've got two passengers in the front seat and a pilot, and then you've got four passengers on a bench in the back. If you're sitting in the front, you've certainly got nothing in your way to see whatever you're going to see. If you're sitting in the back, what has happened is they've taken the rotator shaft out between the front and the back seat. They've moved it behind the cockpit so it's not in your way, and then they've created kind of a theater seating where they've raised the backseat up higher. You've got this view you can see over anybody in the front seat, plus you can see out the windows on either side. You've got great views. This is really kind of the workhorse of the industry. It's kind of the gold standard for helicopters, I guess. Certainly the most widely used, the AStars.

The variation to that is kind of the step up, and this is referred to quite often as the Whisper STARs. It's the same company that makes it, but it's different. Different in the sense that it is ... I'm not exactly sure how much wider. Maybe a foot-and-a-half wider than the AStars? It's wide enough that instead of having a bench seat in the back, everywhere you sit, you've got bucket seats. It's a little bit more comfortable. You have more glass that you can look out, more window space. It's really a little bit more the luxury. It's a little bit more comfortable. Whisper STAR, it's also quieter. Not that you really hear so much the helicopter anyway, inside the helicopter, when you've got the earphones on and such. But those people that are outside the helicopter, it's less noisy, and so it's kind of more ecologically-friendly to the rest of the world. They're going to cost more and be a little bit more expensive for those, but you're getting what you pay for.

As far as where you're going to be seated in any helicopter, generally speaking you're going to end up with people that are less weight in the front, more weight in the back. I should mention that always, if you're going to be flying in a helicopter, we're going to have to know your weight. That's how they organize the weights on the helicopter. They kind of put it in a computer and figure out where everybody's going to sit, and everything has to be aerodynamically balanced so it all works out. You can't fib on your weight, and in fact in most places, they'll actually have a scale that they'll ask you to get on as you arrive and get ready to board the helicopters.

The smaller weight people generally end up in the front. This is not always the case, but it is often depending on the weights and who's there. And a little bit more weight will be in the back. There is one circumstance on the Whisper STARs where under certain circumstances, you can get what they call a first-class seat if you're a little bit heavier, which is like in the 250-pound ... over 250, and you pay extra, usually about a ticket-and-a-half price, and you can sit in the front. Somehow they do the weights, they can arrange it special for you. That's special circumstances. Other than that one choice, you're going to be your weight. You're going to be who you are. You're going to tell them what your weight is, and you're going to sit where they tell you to sit, and that's the way it's going to be. Fortunately, you've got great seats on all of these anyway.

The other helicopters that we often have on Maui are the Hughes 500s. These only sit four passengers, two in the front, two in the back, and on these, they're kind of neat. You can pull the doors off if you choose to, and enjoy the flight. The other one that is used on Maui is called the Robinson. The Robinson is completely different in the sense that it's a much smaller helicopter. It only takes a maximum of three people, and quite often it's really only two. You've got a pilot and one other person in the front seat, and then you got somebody in the back seat, or you could have two people in the back seat, but generally it seems that people come in twos, so you end up with a couple people. So what do you have? If it's just the two of you, you've got sort of your own private flight which is neat.

Also on these, they also can pop the doors off. They charge, I think, maybe $25 more or something like that to pull the doors off. But this is a flight that is very popular among photographers because you've got nothing between you and beautiful Maui, except air. It is kind of the photographer's choice, and a really, really neat way to see Maui.

That's the nuts and bolts basically ... the thing went off just in time ... of helicopter tours on the island of Maui. They're fantastic. If you can arrange to do them, you should. They're really special.

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